Windows Server Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Windows Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Windows Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows Server over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 44 55
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 102 214 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.45% 3.79% 3.99%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.69% 21.46% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 136 170
10th Percentile £328 £263 £213
25th Percentile £453 £377 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £610 £594 £625
90th Percentile £661 £608 £694
England median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 11
10th Percentile - £36.75 £31.25
25th Percentile - £56.50 £43.88
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £66.13 £70.69
90th Percentile - £68.63 £87.50
England median hourly rate £35.88 £38.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year -6.82% +31.40% +33.18%

All Operating Systems
South East

Windows Server falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 518 997 1,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.54% 17.67% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 654 867
10th Percentile £200 £194 £190
25th Percentile £338 £225 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £592
90th Percentile £670 £638 £675
England median daily rate £475 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.38% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 66 62
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £17.58 £18.24 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £43.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.88% -10.42% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £63.91
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £29.15
% change year-on-year +27.27% -24.53% +38.81%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the South East over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the South East

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -5 50 £500 -13.04% 54
Hampshire +3 43 £575 +6.98% 23
Berkshire -8 38 £532 -7.57% 32
Buckinghamshire +10 11 £370 +85.00% 10
Surrey +7 6 £400 +17.65% 10
West Sussex +7 1 £250 -37.50% 3
Oxfordshire 0 1 £275 -21.43% 14
East Sussex - 1 £163 - 1
Sussex - 1 - -
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (12.75%) IIS
2 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.92%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (2.94%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.98%) WinCC
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.18%) Azure
2 26 (25.49%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (14.71%) AWS
3 15 (14.71%) OpenShift
4 14 (13.73%) SaaS
5 12 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (8.82%) Entra ID
7 7 (6.86%) GCP
8 5 (4.90%) GitHub
9 4 (3.92%) IaaS
9 4 (3.92%) Nutanix
9 4 (3.92%) PaaS
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.98%) Akamai
11 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.98%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.53%) DNS
2 14 (13.73%) DHCP
3 12 (11.76%) Firewall
4 11 (10.78%) SMTP
5 8 (7.84%) SSL
6 7 (6.86%) VPN
7 6 (5.88%) HTTP
7 6 (5.88%) TCP/IP
8 5 (4.90%) HTTPS
8 5 (4.90%) NetScaler
8 5 (4.90%) Network Security
9 3 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (2.94%) FTP
9 3 (2.94%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.94%) NGFW
9 3 (2.94%) VSAN
10 2 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (1.96%) Telnet
10 2 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.82%) Big Data
1 9 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.98%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Git
1 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.84%) Finance
4 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.98%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (10.78%) Senior
2 11 (10.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (9.80%) Architect
3 10 (9.80%) Support Engineer
4 8 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 7 (6.86%) Applications Packager
6 6 (5.88%) DV Cleared Application Packager
6 6 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 6 (5.88%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Windows Server Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.94%) Apache Axis
1 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (2.94%) SAML
2 2 (1.96%) .NET
2 2 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.98%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.98%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.98%) EDI
3 1 (0.98%) JSON
3 1 (0.98%) MSMQ
3 1 (0.98%) REST
3 1 (0.98%) SOAP
3 1 (0.98%) WCF
3 1 (0.98%) XML
3 1 (0.98%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Clustering
2 11 (10.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (10.78%) PKI
2 11 (10.78%) Public Cloud
3 9 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 8 (7.84%) Data Centre
5 7 (6.86%) Client/Server
6 6 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.98%) SCADA
8 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 102 (100.00%) Windows
2 34 (33.33%) Linux
3 26 (25.49%) Windows 10
4 23 (22.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (19.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (15.69%) Ubuntu
7 11 (10.78%) CentOS
7 11 (10.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (7.84%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (4.90%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.98%) Android
11 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (20.59%) Agile
3 19 (18.63%) Application Packaging
3 19 (18.63%) DevOps
4 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (14.71%) DevSecOps
6 14 (13.73%) ITIL
7 11 (10.78%) Change Control
8 10 (9.80%) Configuration Management
8 10 (9.80%) High Availability
8 10 (9.80%) Migration
9 9 (8.82%) Server Building
10 7 (6.86%) Application Virtualisation
10 7 (6.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 6 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (5.88%) Service Management
11 6 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (4.90%) Continuous Delivery
12 5 (4.90%) Microservices
12 5 (4.90%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 58 (56.86%) PowerShell
2 20 (19.61%) SQL
3 15 (14.71%) Python
4 9 (8.82%) VBScript
5 5 (4.90%) C#
5 5 (4.90%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.94%) Java
7 2 (1.96%) Bicep
7 2 (1.96%) Ruby
7 2 (1.96%) VB
8 1 (0.98%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.98%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 70 (68.63%) Security Cleared
2 39 (38.24%) DV Cleared
3 31 (30.39%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) Degree
5 5 (4.90%) CISSP
5 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.92%) MCSE
7 3 (2.94%) CISM
7 3 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.94%) VCP5
7 3 (2.94%) VCP6
7 3 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.94%) SLA
2 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.98%) IEC 61131
2 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 48 (47.06%) Active Directory
2 33 (32.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (22.55%) vSphere
4 15 (14.71%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (11.76%) Hyper-V
6 9 (8.82%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (4.90%) NFS
7 5 (4.90%) XenApp
7 5 (4.90%) XenDesktop
8 4 (3.92%) BitLocker
8 4 (3.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 4 (3.92%) Docker
8 4 (3.92%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (21.57%) vCenter Server
2 20 (19.61%) Ansible
3 17 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (16.67%) Terraform
4 15 (14.71%) SCCM
4 15 (14.71%) WSUS
5 11 (10.78%) Nessus
6 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (9.80%) SCOM
7 5 (4.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 4 (3.92%) Nagios
8 4 (3.92%) NetBackup
8 4 (3.92%) Puppet
8 4 (3.92%) vMotion
9 3 (2.94%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.94%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (2.94%) SCSM
10 2 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.98%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 54 (52.94%) VMware
2 46 (45.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.69%) Dell
4 15 (14.71%) Red Hat
5 13 (12.75%) Citrix
5 13 (12.75%) HP
6 8 (7.84%) SolarWinds
7 7 (6.86%) Symantec
7 7 (6.86%) Wyse
8 5 (4.90%) Databricks
9 4 (3.92%) 3PAR
9 4 (3.92%) Google
9 4 (3.92%) Juniper
9 4 (3.92%) Veeam
9 4 (3.92%) Veritas
10 3 (2.94%) Cisco
10 3 (2.94%) NetApp
10 3 (2.94%) NETGEAR
10 3 (2.94%) Splunk
10 3 (2.94%) TP-LINK